A town somewhere.

An old farmer was resting on his low raised wooden platform. That day was especially hotter than any other day he has ever experienced. It was still early in the morning but the sun felt much closer more than usual.

“Sigh…”

The old man was lamenting. This farm that he has was passed down from his grandfather. He wanted to pass down the farm to his sons or grandsons but most of them didn’t want the life of a farmer.

To him the farm need to be inherited and the legacy must be continued. The root of being a farmer must not be forgotten. He was very conflicted to sell this farm to another farmer or searching for an inheritor from the branch family.

“Hm?”

As the old man was tilting his head up, he saw a big shadow coming from the glaring sun.

The shadow was coming closer and closer. A creature so big was flying towards the town. The old man become wide eyed as his mouth was gaping gasping for air. The silhoutte of the flying creature becoming more clear as it revealed a huge black scaly lizard with wings and horns on his head.

“A-A d-d-d-dragon! DRAGON!!!!!RUNNN!!!!”

The scream of a young farmer nearby woke him out of stupor. He wanted to run away but his weak legs were weaken further. His whole body felt numb.

“Ah…. why….. why…. do you have to come here?”

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The old farmer gave up the notion to run away. To him it was already useless to run away for his age. He accepted the impending doom as the dragon open its mouth and released a powerful orange flame turning everything on its path into ashes.

The town was filled with the terrified screams of women,children,the elderly and men. No one was save. No exception as the dragon burned down the big sized town to the ground in a matter of seconds.

The big town known as Margeria was erased from the map like it was never even there. By the time the news of the dragon attack on Margeria reached the emperor, the town has been completely decimated.

After a few days, the imperial knight send by the emperor arrived at the scene of the terrible, terrible slaughter.

The smell of burned flesh permeated the nose of the knight commander. The lingering heat can still be felt on the skin almost as if the incident just happen hours ago.

Even though there were no any sorts of confirmation but all the knights there agreed that there were no survivors. The chance of surviving the dragon attack was already recorded as abysmal.

“Spread out! Find any traces or any kind of tracks of where the dragon might be heading to. That bastard will find some place for his dwelling. We search that and our job will be done here.”

“Yes sir!”

The knights spread out. They were not heartless but they already accepted what has already transpired. A dragon as depicted in old legend as a walking disaster akin to tsunami and earthquake alike but the difference was that a dragon can be killed.

A legend of dragon slayer was passed down from long ago had recorded that dragon can be killed along with the ways on how to track it. The dragon was told as a creature hungry for gold and lives in cave dwelling deep in a mountain.

The emperor ordered the knights to search the dragon cave and report back.

Three days later….

“Commanderrrrr!!!!!”

“Yes?”

The commander was looking at the map when suddenly one of his subordinate entered the tent with a shout.

“What is it?”

“We found it!”

“Where?”

The subordinate point at a location on a map.

“Someone saw a big cave while he was exploring on this mountain yesterday.”

“A mountain north from here? Hmmm. It seems logical. The mountain here was big enough for a dragon cave. The specific location?”

“If we walk along the road here we can see some sort of weird patch of broken trees and some strong monsters wandering near the foot of mountain.”

“Strong monsters near the foot of the mountain was enough evident for a dragon to be there. Alright. Light up the flares. We are going back.”

“Yes sir!”

Once the report was made to the emperor, an imperial order was immediately issued. The imperial order was for a bounty of 100k gold on the dragon head along with the title of ‘Dragon Slayer’ as the rewards and the location of the dragon to be spread all over the Empire of Lakazuka.

As the news of the imperial order was spread, it reached an ambitious naive young noble man with the dream of bringing glory to his family name. After thinking for 2 days 1 night, he came out with the idea of putting up an expedition team to kill the dragon.